Carrigaphooca

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrigaphooca, from 754 m² to 214,547 m² (21.45 ha, 53.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 13 May 2026Invalid - case closed

  Permission for a new effluent treatment system & permission for retention of a new entrance

  Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1264

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  Permission for alterations and extension to existing dwellinghouse, to include: elevational changes to the northern, southern and western elevations of existing dwellinghouse, construction of extension to western and southern elevations of existing dwellinghouse, construction of new domestic garage, decommissioning of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater treatment system, new entrance, together with all other ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/5125

• 22 Apr 2024Conditional

  Permission for the construction of cubicle shed, slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank and all associated site work

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4684

• 2 Apr 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for the construction of cubicle shed, underground slurry storage tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4554

• 11 Mar 2024Incompleted application

  Permission for the construction of cubicle shed, slatted shed, underground slurry storage tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 24/4419

• 9 Oct 2023Withdrawn

  Permission for the construction of (1) Cow shed to include milking parlour, dairy and underground slurry storage tank (2) Roofed extension to existing shed & all associated site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 23/6033

• 12 Oct 2021Conditional

  The construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6774

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  The construction of new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, new entrance, waste water treatment system together with all other ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4961

• 9 Feb 2018Conditional

  Retention of domestic outbuildings (garage/store & stables)

  Retention · Cork County Council, 18/4341

• 29 Sept 2011Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 11/6090

• 23 Sept 2009Withdrawn

  Dwelling house & septic tank

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/7137

• 17 May 2007Conditional

  Two storey extension to dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7915

• 6 Apr 2005Conditional

  Alterations and extensions to dwelling to include a separate dwelling unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2135

• 6 Apr 2005Conditional

  Dwelling

  Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2136

• 28 Nov 2003Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and treatment unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6069

• 24 Jun 2003Refused

  2 no. dwellings

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 03/3093

• 23 Jun 2003Conditional

  Domestic garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3076

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrigaphooca.

Recorded monuments

• CO070-034 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On top of a steep-sided rocky outcrop, c. 100m N of the Sullane River, and c. 250m W of Carrigaphooca stone circle. This five-storey rectangular tower house (10.7m E-W; 9.3m N-S) was repaired by the Office of Public Works in recent years. This was the castle of the Mac Carthys of Drishane (Smith 1750, vol. 1, 182; Butler 1917, 54; Lee 1910, 130-1), reputedly built by Donal Mac Carthy in 1436 (Healy 1988, 27-9); it was attacked and taken by another MacCarthy, together with O'Sullivan Beare in 1602 (Ó Murchadha 1993, 223). It is entered through a ground-floor door in the N wall, now approached by a modern flight of steps. A short lobby gives access straight through to the ground-floor chamber, and to the E to the landing at the foot of straight mural stairs rising in the E wall to the SE corner of tower, from which they rise as spiral to the 4th-floor level. The ground-floor chamber (6.5m E-W; 5.4m N-S) is lit by similar off-centre windows in the E, S and W walls: the inner part of the embrasure is square-set and covered by a segmental vault; the outer part is smaller and shorter, covered by lintels; each has a single square-headed light. The first-floor chamber is entered from the mural stairs by a door in the middle of the E wall. Similar windows to those on the ground floor are in the centre of the N and S walls; the window in the W wall has a similar plan but is entirely roofed by lintels. There is a door in the N side of this window's embrasure leading into a mural chamber (access to which was not gained on inspection). The second-floor chamber is entered from the mural stairs by a door at the S end of the E wall; it is lit by central windows in the E, N and W walls; the W window is similar to those on the ground floor; the E window is also similar but lintelled, the door in the N side of the embrasure leads into a mural chamber (access to which was not gained on inspection). The N window is splayed and lintelled with a single flat-headed light. At the 3rd-floor level from the spiral stairs a door gives access to a lintelled mural chamber (4.55m E-W; 1.05m N-S) in the S wall of the tower, with a garderobe opening at the W end; the door in the N wall of this chamber gives access to the main 3rd-floor chamber. The latter is attic under pointed vault (axis E-W), and is lit by a splayed and lintelled window in the W wall with a single flat-headed light, and by a much-repaired window in the E wall. The top of the spiral stairs gives access to the main 4th-floor chamber (7.4m E-W; 6.4m N-S), which was covered with a stone-flagged floor by the OPW. It is lit by windows with square-set embrasures covered by flat vaults in the centre of the N, E and S walls, all missing their lights, and by a window in the centre of the W wall with a splayed and lintelled embrasure and a single flat-headed light. The E window has a door in the S side of the embrasure leading into a small lintelled mural chamber (1.2m E-W; 1.75m N-S), and an opposite door in the N side of the embrasure leading to mural stairs which give access to the N wall walk. No battlements survive; the lower part of the bartizans are intact atop the NE and SW corners of the tower, which are each supported by five corbels, one set over the corner. This is a National Monument in State Ownership (no. 255). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Photographs attached: CO070-034----_01: Aerial view of the castle from SE. CO070-034----_02: View of the castle from the SE. CO070-034----_03: View of the castle from N. CO070-034----_04: View of the castle from NW. CO070-034----_05: N façade with doorway in ground floor, from N. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

• CO070-035 Stone circle - multiple-stone
  Description

  In flat pasture, c. 300m NW of the confluence of the Foherish and Sullane Rivers, and c. 250m NE of Carigaphooca tower house (CO070-034----). Carrigaphooca means ‘stone of the púca’ (ghost or fairy).Three stones survive indicating a stone circle of a diameter of at least 5.5m, however, it is difficult to determine how many stones originally formed the perimeter of the circle. Windele and Conlon mention five stones, four still standing and one lying down (Ó Nualláin 1984a, 15; Conlon 1918, 139). It was described as early as the 18th century as ‘the remains of a druid altar, encompassed with a circle of stones, pitched endways’ (Smith 1750, vol. 1, 182). Based on the evidence Ó Nualláin (Ibid) suggests the circle may have been comprised of seven orthostats, and an internal quartz stone. The tallest stone is to the S of the circle, and it is oriented SSE-NNW (H 2.2m max, Wth 1m max, T 0.2 to 0.4m). Directly facing it to the N is the shortest stone, with the same orientation (H and Wth: 1.1m, T 0.37 to 0.55m). The third standing stone is to the E, and oriented E-W (H 0.85m, Wth 1m max, T 0.2 to 0.3m). Directly to the W of the tallest stone is a reclining stone which was likely part of the circle (L c. 1.2m, Wth c. 0.7m, T c. 0.5-0.6m at the base). There are also at least one other reclining stone that may have part of the monument, though it is not possible to say for certain; it is located within the circle, to the W of the E stone (H 0.7m, L 1.15m, T 0.22m). (O Nualláin 1984a, 15, no. 11) This is a National Monument in State Ownership (no. 255). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Photographs attached: CO070-035----_01: View of stone circle and castle beyond, from E. CO070-035----_02: View of stone circle from N. CO070-035----_03: View of stone circle from NW. CO070-035----_04: View of S-most stone, from N. CO070-035----_05: View of N-most stone, from S. CO070-035----_06: View of E stone, from E. CO070-035----_07: Stone that has fallen down, from W. CO070-035----_08: Possible stone that has fallen down, from N. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Date of last revision: 5 July 2023

Architectural heritage

• Carrigaphooca Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Six-arch road bridge, built c.1820, spanning River Foherish, having additional overflow arches to banks. Rendered rubble stone walls, springing from rendered plinths with V-cutwaters. Rubble stone parapet walls with render stringcourse and coping. Segmental-arches, having exposed roughly dressed stone voussoirs to western overflow arch, rendered elsewhere.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrigaphooca.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Carrigaphooca with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Carrigaphooca · Carraig an Phúca

Area

874,758 m² (87.48 ha, 216.16 acres)

Civil parish

Clondrohid, and its townlands

Barony

Muskerry West

Electoral division

Kilnamartery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilnamartery electoral division: 731 people in 249 households; 86% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrignamaddry, Dromonig, Glananarig, Inchinlinane, Killaclug

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Carrigaphooca on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.